The minor law books: The minor law books (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889)

NARADA.

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*3. When, the purchaser returns it on the second
clay (after the purchase has been macle), he shall lose
a thirtieth part of the price. (He shall lose) twice
as much on the third day. After that time, the
purchaser is bound to keep it.
*4. The (intending) purchaser shall first examine
an article (before purchasing it), in order to find out
its good and bad qualities. That which has been
approved by the purchaser after close examination,
cannot be returned to the vendor.
* 5. Milch cattle may be examined for three days ;
animals of burden, for five days ; and in the case
of precious stones, pearls, and coral, the period of
examination may extend over seven clays.
*6. Bipeds shall be examined within half a
month ; a female, within twice the same (space of
time) ; all sorts of grain, within ten days; iron and
clothes, within a single day.
* 7. A worn gown, which is in a ragged condition
and soiled with dirt, cannot be returned to the
vendor, if it was in that blemished state at the time
when the purchase was effected.
*8. Wearing apparel loses the eighth part of its
value on being washed for the first time; the fourth

IX, 3. ‘ He shall lose a thirtieth part,’ he shall give one-thirtieth
part more than the stipulated price. 'Twice as much,’ i. e.
a fifteenth. See Colebrooke’s Digest, III, 3, 5.
5, 6. ‘ For three days,’ including the day of purchase. The
terms ‘ for five days,’ &c., have to be interpreted in the same way.
‘ Milch cattle,’ such as e.g. female buffaloes. 'Animals of burden,’
such as e.g. young bulls. ' Bipeds,’males, i.e. male slaves. ‘Twice
the same space of time,’ a month. ‘ A female,’ a female slave. Vira-
mitrodaya, pp. 433, 434. Manu VIII, 222; Ya^navalkya II, 177.
8, 9. When apparel has been given to a washerman to be
washed by him, he is bound to make good the value of that